Naval Estimates: The Dreadnought Age - Free Naval Grand Strategy Wargame
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The armour zone view of a fictional Satsuma-class battleship of 1912, the hull drawn transparent with the armoured deck shaded blue and the two new uptake casings picked out in cyan
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Build 1.3.2

Build 1.3.2 is out. Physical uptake trunking is the big-ticket item, alongside internal mountings for deck torpedo tubes.

Hoists and trunks now cut holes in the deck, funnels can take casings and gratings, hoists for non-barbette mounts can be armoured, and barbettes can carry non-uniform armour. There are fixes throughout - including to the penetration traces - improved bow resistance with the bulb type split in two, and better hull and superstructure weight and space.

Old campaign saves and design files load fine. Several ships will update on load: armour backing, superstructure, and bow and stern weights recalculate; bow type resistance recalculates; internal and crew space shift; funnels draw true trunks to machinery; and turrets recalculate their weights, backing plates included.

Additions

  • Uptake trunks: every boiler room’s gas path to its funnel is now a physical duct running up through the armoured decks, drawn in both the 2D views and the 3D, cut through every deck plate it crosses, and checked against magazines, rooms and other ducts. Two new Protection rows, Uptake Gratings and Uptake Casings, plate the deck opening and the duct
  • Internal deck torpedo mounts: tick a deck torpedo mount Internal to seat it inside the hull or a superstructure, behind a torpedo port cut in the plating, with its own room
  • Move Everything: shift every placed object at once, moving the whole arrangement along the ship with one click
  • Limit Arc: right-click a mount to cap its rotation each way from its rest facing, on a 5-degree grid
  • Copy and Flip in the superstructures listbox
  • Bow Deck and Stern Deck plating, each end of the deck in its own surface and paint; plus Hull Paint Bands, two ticks that paint the sheer or a raised forecastle or quarterdeck in the superstructure colour
  • Barbette armour by facing, base-ring splinter plate, and battery hoist armour
  • Battery-wide apply everywhere
  • Alt-click aligns torpedo deck mounts to a drawn pair’s beam offset, as it already does for gun mounts
  • Fall of Shot tells you where a piece ended up - spent inside the ship, into the sea, or flying clear - and hovering a Products row shows that piece’s path in the 3D view

Fixes

  • Long-range Fall of Shot salvoes were drawn and scored wrongly: shells could skip clean over the target while the expected figure read near 100%, and a flat-shooting gun’s aim point could run away past the ship
  • A burst just after a ricochet landed behind the plate the shell had skipped off, and an internal lower belt could be phased through
  • A magazine could be wrongly reported unable to stow its stock when its growth ran near a centreline mount
  • A mirrored pair of torpedo mounts reported arcs a degree apart at every end
  • A shield’s roof vanished when seen through its elevation cutout, and a gun port room had no ceiling
  • A tumblehome hull with a raised forecastle creased at the break
  • The profile drew the far side’s machinery on an echelon plant
  • A deckhouse snapped to a raised forecastle could hang past the deck edge with nothing under it
  • A modified high-angle light turret opened at an Internal Volume over 100%
  • A bow or stern torpedo room booked double its tubes
  • Torpedo calibres rounded to a whole inch, so Nelson’s 24.5-inch Mark I read as 24-inch
  • Masts and their legs could stand outside the hull
  • A casemate opening angled into an adjoining deckhouse cut a raw hole through its wall and roof
  • A control point following an Angle line could escape the deck edge
  • The summary card drew an armed torpedo in placement colours
  • France’s 274 mm gun merged two real patterns; it is now the /45 Modèle 1893 and the /40, with the 305 mm/45 added
  • A ship’s deck extension charged no internal volume on any normal-freeboard hull

Balance

  • Armour backing and liners: every gunhouse plate pays its mounting, and deck armour sits on a splinter-deck liner
  • Weights from the drawing: raised decks, deckhouses and the hull ends - overhangs, a transom face, castings, a bulb - are charged as items at hull gauges instead of whole-hull multipliers, with sheer by geometry; deck plates lose plating where trunks and hoists pass through
  • Bow and forefoot resistance re-fitted, and the bulb splits into an integrated Bulbous Forefoot (Hull TL 16) and a protruding Bulbous Bow (TL 22)
  • Ready racks re-tuned: a turret’s free pocket halves, with a larger paid stretch, and the casemate and gun-shield pools are cut
  • Modifications priced by scope - a fittings, ammunition, breech or tube change on a gun, or a fittings, plate, gear or chain change on a mount, costs its own share of time and budget rather than a full redesign. A spare barrel is assumed held, for now
  • Internal volume and crew space: uptake casings and subdivision charge more, and torpedo flats charge their rooms
  • Torpedo rooms priced by composition, with tube assembly, hull reinforcement and handling gear each at their own rate
  • Unbelted schemes lay their belt on the hull’s natural flare: on Unprotected and Protected Deck the belt angle is inert, and the thin strake follows the hull instead of wall-siding the citadel
  • Gun pit length limits clear their anchor guns by at least 2% across every nation and date, and France’s 1905 gun pit is extended to fit the 305 mm/45

Other

  • The Summarize card’s battery rate of fire shows the installed full and sustained figures as a pair (2.0 to 1.2 rpm), and the Broadside line adds that same side’s throw per minute in brackets, at the mounts’ ideal rate

Trunking touches almost every ship you have already drawn - if something comes back looking wrong, the Discord is the place.

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